Dr. Kim McGrath

Dr. Kimberly McGrath is global director of business development for Maxwell Technologies and has spent her career in the field of materials science and energy storage development and commercialization including ultracapacitor, battery, and fuel cell technology. Early in her career, Kim’s focus was on reduction in the size and weight of portable power sources utilized in military applications. Currently, she is focused on growing Maxwell’s energy storage business to enable increased solar and wind energy generation on grids and microgrids as traditional fossil and nuclear generation is decommissioned. She received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Southern California and an MBA from The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine.